do but to send it to the Anti-Slavery Society, submitting it entirely to their judgment....  I cannot be too thankful for the change thou expressest in thy feelings with regard to the Anti-Slavery Society, and feel no desire at all to blame thee for former opposition, believing, as I do, that it was permitted in order to drive me closer to my Saviour, and into a deeper examination of the ground upon which I was standing.  I am indeed thankful for it; how could I be otherwise, when it was so evident thou hadst my good at heart and really did for the best?  And it did not hurt me at all.  It did not alienate me from the blessed cause, for I think the same suffering that would drive us back from a bad cause makes us cling to and love a good one more ardently.  O sister, I feel as if I could give up not only friends, but life itself, for the slave, if it is called for.  I feel as if I could go anywhere to save him, even down to the South if I am called there.  The conviction deepens and strengthens, as retirement affords fuller opportunity for calm reflection, that the cause of emancipation is a cause worth suffering for, yea, dying for, if need be.  With regard to the proposed mission in New York, I can see nothing about it, and never did any poor creature feel more unfit to do anything than I do to undertake it.  But what duty presses me into, I cannot press myself out of....  I sometimes feel frightened to think of how long I was standing idle in the market-place, and cannot help attributing it in a great measure to the doctrine of nothingness so constantly preached up in our Society.  It is the most paralyzing, zeal-quenching doctrine that ever was preached in the Church, and I believe has produced its legitimate fruit of nothingness in reducing us to nothing, when we ought to have been a light in the Christian Church....  Farewell, dearest, perhaps we shall soon meet.”

The Appeal was sent to New York, and this was what Mr. Wright wrote to the author in acknowledging its receipt:—­

“I have just finished reading your Appeal, and not with a dry eye.  I do not feel the slightest doubt that the committee will publish it.  Oh that it could be rained down into every parlor in our land.  I know it will carry the Christian women of the South if it can be read, and my soul blesses that dear and glorious Saviour who has helped you to write it.”

When it was read some days after to the gentlemen of the committee, they found in it such an intimate knowledge of the workings of the whole slave system, such righteous denunciation of it, and such a warm interest in the cause of emancipation, that they decided to publish it at once and scatter it through the country, especially through the South.  It made a pamphlet of thirty-six pages.  The Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine for October, 1836, thus mentions it:—­